Dictionaries :: Daughter

Daughter:

This word, besides its natural and proper sense, is used to designate, (1.) A niece or any female descendant (Gen 20:12; 24:48; 28:6). (2.) Women as natives of a place, or as professing the religion of a place; as, "the daughters of Zion" (Isa 3:16), "daughters of the Philistines" (2Sa 1:20). (3.) Small towns and villages lying around a city are its "daughters," as related to the metropolis or mother city. Tyre is in this sense called the daughter of Sidon (Isa 23:12). (4.) The people of Jerusalem are spoken of as "the daughters of Zion" (Isa 37:22). (5.) The daughters of a tree are its boughs (Gen 49:22). (6.) The "daughters of music" (Ecc 12:4) are singing women.

Daughter:

do'-ter (bath; thugater): Used in Scriptures in several more or less distinct senses:

(a) for daughter in the ordinary, literal sense (Ge 46:25; Ex 1:16);

(b) daughter-in-law (Ru 2:2);

(c) grand-daughter or other female descendant (Ex 21; Lu 1:5; 13:16);

(d) the women of a country, or of a place, taken collectively (Lu 23:28), of a particular religion (Mal 2:11);

(e) all the population of a place, taken collectively, especially in Prophets and poetic books (Ps 9:14; Isa 23:10; Jer 46:24; Mt 21:5);

(f) used in familiar address, "Daughter, be of good comfort" (Mt 9:22 the King James Version; Mr 5:34; Lu 8:48);

(g) women in general (Pr 31:29);

(h) the personification of towns or cities, as of the female sex (Isa 47:1; Eze 16:44,46; compare Na 3:4,7), especially of dependent towns and villages (Ps 48:11; Nu 21:25 margin; Jud 1:27 margin);

(i) in Hebrew idiom for person or thing belonging to or having the characteristics of that with which it is joined, as "daughter of ninety years," of Sarah, ninety years old (Ge 17:17); "daughters of music," singing birds, or singing women (Ec 12:4); daughters of a tree, i. e. branches; daughter of the eye, i. e. the pupil.

Daughters were not so highly prized as sons, not being usually mentioned by name. A father might sometimes sell his daughter as bondwoman (Ex 21:7); though not to a foreigner (Ex 21:8); daughters might sometimes inherit as did sons, but could not take the inheritance outside of the tribe (Nu 36:1-12).

Written by Edward Bagby Pollard

Daughter: Forbidden to Be Wife of Her Mother's Husband

Lev 20:14

Daughter: Sold in Concubinage

Exd 21:7-10

Daughter: Given in Marriage by Parents

Jdg 1:12, 13; 1Sa 17:25; 18:20, 21

Daughter: Property Rights Of

Num 27:1-11; 36; Jos 17:3-6; Rth 4:3

Daughter: Used Also for Granddaughter

Gen 36:2

Daughter:

The word is used in Scripture not only for daughter, but for granddaughter or other female descendant (Genesis 24:48). It is used of the female inhabitants of a place or country (Genesis 6:2; Luke 23:28) and of cities in general (Isaiah 10:32; 23:12) but more specifically of dependent towns or hamlets, while to the principal city the correlative "mother" is applied (Numbers 21:25). "Daughters of music," i.e. singing birds (Ecclesiastes 12:4) refers to the power of making and enjoying music.